RAM usage... is that normal?

[Rey]

Hey,
I am hosting a Server for me and my friend.
We only play as Duo and rented a Server for a Month with 6GB RAM.
All what i read 4-5GB should be more then enough for 2 people playing.

All settings are on standard... we dont have any increased population or something..?

Any ideas why its taking so much of memory

https://i.postimg.cc/SN5S7GB6/RAM.jpg

[Puppers]

Do you have any mods installed?

[Ronin]

I've experienced this same thing across multiple servers, vanilla, modded, self hosted 16gb RAM, self hosted 32gb RAM, dedicated (own pc) with 32gb RAM, and now with 3rd party hosting at 8gb, 16gb and 24gb, regardless of how much RAM is available or how many players are active, the game will over use RAM all day.

The game allocates RAM to new players joining but doesn't unallocate it even after player numbers drop. I've seen a server go from 16 players using 19gb of RAM to it remaining at 16-19gb even after the player count drops to 4 or 5 for a few hours.

If you have 8gb, it will use 8gb, if you have 16gb, it will use 16gb and beyond. If you upgrade your ram and give it 24gb or more, even with only 10 players on it has still gone up to 20gb RAM usage somehow. This is all with vanilla, no mods are causing the memory leak / overuse of ram on the server.

[Surottoru]

I'm currently renting through nitrado with about 50 mods for 2 people and I see about 5gb ram usage of 6gm total, server seems to run fine